Tours

We are available to provide custom, in-person sessions for a variety of agencies, facilities and organizations. These trainings may include presentations or hands-on installation and maintenance trainings for management, staff or the general public.

The focus of the tours has included design of green infrastructure, rain and healing gardens, productive staff gardens, creating on site nurseries and composting opportunities, wellness trail development, cost-effective maintenance practices, and the role of sustainable landscape in inspiring the medical center’s larger sustainability program.

Transformation of Kent Hospital's campus to lower maintenance sustainable model began with master plan and early projects like the Emergency Department entrance. Existing ledge rock is preserved and enhanced with native plantings such as purple aster.

Located at Kent Hospital's PETScan and Infusion Center, the healing Serenity Garden provides intimate solace and peace to patients and their families.

Creeping flowers stabilize and enliven embankment leading up to healing Serenity Garden.

Fresh Pond Reservation Projects

Tom has conducted numerous walking tours of Fresh Pond Reservation’s extensive watershed land restoration projects in Cambridge. His tours have been independent and collaborative in nature and sponsored by the Ecological Landscape Alliance (ELA) and the New England Wildflower Society (NEWFS).

The focus of the tours has included bioengineered slope restoration, stormwater treatment wetland design, reuse of local materials (e.g. cut logs and brush, boulders), diverse planting and seeding strategies for habitat enhancement, integration of passive and active recreation uses in restored natural area context, design within a robust public process, and cost-effective maintenance regimes. His participants have included architects, engineers and other design professionals, educators, public officials and the general public.

At Fresh Pond, Tom's collaborative design work included 4-acre constructed wet meadow which cleanses runoff prior to discharge into drinking water reservoir while providing substantial recreational and ecological benefits in the city.